Drfone nerds6/2/2023 Posted by PhoBWanKenobi at 12:15 PM on Augīut, there seems to be this aspect of nerd/geek culture that wears being bullied (whether they actually were or not) as some sort of code for "This excuses a lot of what I do." I mean, deep down, I'm happy loving the things I love. And I definitely don't think I'm an oppressed class. I have never had my geek cred questioned. There's a privilege there, in being a dork. Whereas I've had the persistent feeling of being just a half degree out of step with both the mainstream and the dominant geek paradigm. "Newcomer," I think?) I mean, I like Star Wars, too, and a few other mainstreamy things, and it's not like I wear the badge of non-mainstream-geekness as a source of particular pride or anything but there's this feeling of social isolation, in being a dork, which you don't really get when you're a geek which seems to be all about loving the same things. But mostly I embrace the term as a self-identifier because I have a persistent history in being interested in things that are considered in no ways cool-I wore a bald cap with spots drawn on it to school in 1999, long after Alien Nation was canceled, because I was that obsessed (I also had a t-shirt with something written on it in Tenctonese. I mean, I was a literal mouthbreather for all of elementary school and painfully shy up until college and it feels like the most accurate term, for whatever reason. Blameworthy, self-centered failure to care about other people. Actual difficulty at understanding social cues (including stuff like Asperger syndrome).ĥ. Your clothes are ugly," may have a hard time learning to accept voices saying, "You need a shower. I think that this sometimes leads to a lack of social skills because someone who has to learn, as a survival skill, to ignore voices saying, "You're fat. Guys who are football geeks and girls who are fashion geeks don't get labeled dorks.ģ. Social condemnation of the kind of thing someone is obsessed with. Obsessive nerdiness or geekiness that crowds out interest in social skills.Ģ. That lack of social skills can be bound up in any or all of the following:ġ. I agree with the first article's definitions of nerd and geek.īut I think the concept referred to as "dork" is more complicated than just lack of social skills. Posted by justsomebodythatyouusedtoknow at 10:48 AM on Aug The pride of the ruling class plus the sense of moral superiority proper to the underdog: the persecuted hegemon. Self-righteous delusions of persecution can be good for one's self esteem, all the more fun if one doesn't have to get through any actual persecution. On the other hand, you get people like this guy comparing himself to Rosa Parks because shop clerks sometimes wish him "Happy Holidays" rather than "Merry Christmas." See also the term "nerd blackface." I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that The Big Bang Theory is somewhat less problematic than racism. Similarly, geek culture has taken over mainstream culture and we're proud of it. You hear the loud boasts that America is a Christian nation. On the one hand, they've got the dominant position in American society, with their needs being disproportionately catered to. There's a strong parallel here to the self-perception of American evangelicals.
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